Numbers 3:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. ”

• Numbers 3:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Of the Levites, the Kohathites, the kinsmen of Moses and Aaron, and the most numerous, have the most important charge confided to them, namely, that of the ark, the altars, and the more especially...

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• Numbers 3:30 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Numbers of the Levites, their Position and Duties. The census here described included all Levites above one month, whose numbers amounted to 22,000. Their three divisions, when the camp was sta...

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• Numbers 3:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

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• Numbers 3:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Numbers 3:30 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Levites, Their Duties And Number Although Aaron and his family belong to the tribe of Levi ( Exodus 2:1 ) the term 'Levites' is usually employed, as here, to denote the non-Aaronite Levites. T...

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• Numbers 3:30 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  3. LEVITICAL SERVICE Numbers 3:14-39 ; Numbers 4:1-49 The sacred service of the Levites is described in detail. There are three divisions, the Gershonites, the Kohathites, the Merarites. The G...

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• Numbers 3:30 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The account of the arrangements for the service of the Levites is fully and carefully given in this and the following chapter. In the rites are certain matters of principle which are of permanent val...

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• Numbers 3:30 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I do not detain the Reader, through this whole account of the numbering of the Levites, with any observation, in order to avoid the unnecessarily swelling the extent of our Commentary. But I cannot s...

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• Numbers 3:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. The same man, who, with his brother Mishael, carried Nadab and Abihu out of the ca...

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• Numbers 3:30 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE SONS OF AARON (vs.1-4) Aaron was the high priest, and in Israel a natural succession was practiced, as is not true in the Church of God today In fact, a special priesthood is not scriptural n...

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• Numbers 3:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        14 And the L ORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,   15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and up...

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• Numbers 3:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Numbers 3:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  iv). The Family and Privilege of Kohath ( Numbers 3:27-32 ). Numbers 3:27 ‘And of Kohath was the family (‘clan') of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebron...

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• Numbers 3:30 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Critical Notes.—“Muster of the Tribe of Levi. As Jacob had adopted the two sons of Joseph as his own sons, and thus promoted them to the rank of heads of tribes, the tribe of Levi founded, strictly s...

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• Numbers 3:30 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Numbers 3:9 . Thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron. God has a sovereign right to choose and call his own ministers. The service of the tabernacle would be better done by a separate tribe professio...

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• Numbers 3:30 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE NUMBERS AND DUTIES OF THE LEVITES ; THEIR SUBSTITUTION FOR THE FIRSTBORN ( Numbers 3:1-4 ). Numbers 3:1 These … are the generations of Aaron and Mose...

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• Numbers 3:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Charges of the Various Divisions among the Levites

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• Numbers 3:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 15:8 ; 2 Chronicles 29:13 ; Exodus 6:22 ; Leviticus 10:4 ; Numbers 3:30 ; Numbers 34:25

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